August

This week was great ! We where blessed with 7 new investigators and we had one of the if not the most powerful lesson I have been a part of my whole mission. It was incredible the spirit was there and we know that he felt it he probably would have been baptized that day honestly. The spirit is the best thing we can forget things we see or hear but you don't easily forget what you feel. I will not forget how that lesson felt. I doubt he will either. Well,  we also met the manager of the 3 subways here in Page and it sounds like we might get the hook up.        what!   You know that's right!  Allso i have learned a ton the last couple weeks about inspiration and even revelation. Great things are happening and we are very bold with talking to all who might cross our path its scary buts its kinda fun. It's s hot lately- just kidding its always hot -ha but monsoon season is officially started so finally i get to see rain. my ponderize scripture is in the doctrine and covenants section 24:12 it says  
And at all times, and in all places, he shall open his mouth and declare my gospel as with the voice of a trump, both day and night. And I will give unto him strength such as is not known among men.  

I know for a fact this is true because like anything to be proven true we put it to the test and i have seen it work more than once. now i am working on doing it all the time. hopefully we will get to go out to some native American ruins soon we have a member who wants to take us he just needs work of on Monday the ruins are some of the ones in the cliff side they are sweet. 

love you all lots 

Answering my questions 

yeah its weird being a district leader & a trainer  but i have learned a lot for sure, who knows bye the end of this next year i might be mature ha!

July Catch up

Sorry We've been OOT and I havent gotten these up as fast as usual.  First off we got an awesome video and text from a member in Page telling us how awesome Chase is and a video of a lesson he taught.  It was beautiful!  His testimony of our gospel is so strong and I was so touched to hear his voice and sweet spirit.
The picts are two from the person.  One is a picture of the houses they teach at.  It looks like a shed but its a normal home for the Navajo and Lego people.  We are so blessed to have all we have.

Latest Letter: 

hi mom and everyone else.   This week was great! It was hot but fun.  We had some super great people come to church.  I was so happy for them they had a great time.   We have still been blessed with great people to teach here in the 5th ward. I love it!  i got to go on an exchange with one of my zone leaders who will be going home next week, he challenged me to memorize a scripture passage a day so i have.  Its hard but worth it. my ponderize scripture is moroni 8:16 ... behold i speak with boldness having authority from God, and I fear not what man can do, for perfect love casteth out all fear. This one gives me lots of courage during the hard scary parts of missionary work. 

i love you all Hagonee

Week Ago Letter:

Sorry this week we had to email Wednesday because of 4th of July.   Yesterday we had Zone conference in Tuba City.   It was really good I learned a ton. This week was fun. Monday we could see some of the fireworks out our window that where down by the golf course it was nice. Its funny all the elders in my apartment are making smoothies and stuff with our little personal blenders hope fully we loose some weight. We also run and stuff.   We found these beautiful trails near by so we run sometimes.   Its got some great views I'll take pic one of these days. 

My ponderize scripture this week is 1 Corinthians 10:13 It's super good. It talks about temptation and how Heavenly Father will never let us have to much and how there is always a way to escape temptation.  It makes me think of the youth theme from a while -ago stand ye in holy places. However not all temptation is because we are in the wrong place sometimes we just cant avoid it.   For those time just look to your Heavenly Father and remember someone already over came that same temptation. I know this definitely helps me out lots haha . 

love you all

and look up the scripture I forgot to write it out for yall

2 posts and some amazing Picts!

Well this week was Amazing!  So much happened that was just great literally saw miracles it was just great!  To answer your question, yes some shirts would be great maybe 2-3 short sleeve and 1 long. 
I survived transfers I am staying in Page 5th ward. It is getting so hot I put a ton of sunscreen on. I

will attach some pictures to this email form some hikes in a slot canyon and horseshoe bend. This week we got to teach a guy in front of 25 priests and a couple bishops and other members so that was crazy but ended up going very well He is a great guy and can't wait to teach him more. 

My ponderize scripture is 2 Nephi 32:5
5)  For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do. I love this because it shows a huge blessing of baptism and confirmation. I hope you all think about this and realize the great blessing you have been given and if you don't understand this email or know you have not been baptized ----talk to some missionary's. Well lots more happened this week it was all good. My testimony is growing a ton and I love the the gospel of Jesus Christ in its entirety.

 love you all

hagoonee 

This week has been awesome we are meeting with some amazing people and seeing results.  God is blessing us like crazy. We helped move a lot of heavy furniture which is good. I like doing that. We are getting to see people make a lot of changes its awesome. This week we have been trying to get in and teach a young girl because she went to girls camp and felt the spirit super strong. We showed up at her house and met her super catholic grandma and kind of catholic mom and found out one of our other investigators is dating the mom surprise!  We walked in on a full blown soap opera. That was fun. For workouts this week one morning we jogged to the famous Horse Shoe Bend.   Its my second time there but  it was still astounding. Today we went on a guided tour through Antelope canyon, which is epic! If you have ever seen an picture of a slot canyon with like a beam of light or something like that there is a 99 percent chance is was taken there.  It was pretty coo.  l I wish my camera was better now. 

My ponderize is Mathew 5:3-9 the B- attitudes don't have much to say about them other than amen and that's the goal I guess. well  I love you all

hagoonee

End of May update

Thank you!  I got the package it was sweet.   I had to eat the fish outside they couldn't handle it.   To smelly for the land locked people. We met a less active guy who has the phantom drone and all sorts of stuff for it priced around 1000 dollars total, that's crazy! I’m fully content with the 30 dollar one its so fun.

 

This week was tough but so worth it.  We had a ton of fun and my testimony grew as did my appreciation for the missionaries and church members in the area.   They are awesome!  We are tracting in the sun a lot and I have yet to get sunburned so ha everyone that says how white I am ha. Met some strange people and some super angry people but they all make me laugh. We also met some great people. Our zone did a zone fast for the work in Page and I cant wait to see what the Lord has in store for the zone. 

 

This morning I got to flip some huge tires for workout it was awesome!   Today our plan is to go check out Horseshoe Bend that should be sweet.

 

 My Ponderize for this week 

is Haggai 1:5,7 I like this scripture 

5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 
7¶Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways .

 I love this because it is so simple and the lord says it twice within a couple of verses. I know I need to consider the way I do things and ask myself is this the Lords way?

 

I invite you all to do this too. I guarantee that if you do this coupled with scripture study you as an individual will improve immensely.  

 

I love ya’ll a lot and miss you.

 

Hagoonee

 

 

 

May Day

Wow,  I am jealous of the burgers in the picture and Ian's tie in that homecoming pic or whatever it was.

 

 This week was so weird but I loved it. It was really hard to leave Dilkon because I grew to love it there a lot but it had to be done for me to progress.  So far so good in Page lots of work to be done. I am so happy that Elder Echohawk and Sister Echohawk could come out as well as Elder Cook and Sister Cook. Their talks were so good and the spirit was amazing.  I loved it so much and I really needed it. He said some things that absolutely blew my mind and almost brought the whole audience to tears (300ish) During the closing prayer everyone was sniffling it was awesome. One thing he said I bet you guys would like is that he and Elder Holland where missionary companions on there missions... how crazy is that?! 

 

 Page seems good. This area is only like 7 mins across though which is super weird because my last area was a solid 45 miles.   So yeah, but there are awesome people here that need the gospel so I know there is something I can do here. My companion is 6'4' and is a baller so that awesome.   We play ball every morning almost. It’s rained here for the whole time. I have been here.  Im so thankful for that. My companion is the District leader so that awesome. The zone is amazing and I can feel how close they are and I am already close with them and its been like 3 days sense I got here.   It helps we all live like 30 mins away from each other.

 

 Anyway, my ponderize scripture is Doctrine and Covenants 87:8

 

     8)  Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen.

 

This is pretty self-explanatory, just be in good places mentally and physically if you don't know how to do that, find some missionaries if you cant do that get some scriptures and read them.   I'm confident that you will get the help and guidance you need.

 

 I love you all and hope you can stand in a holy place and bring others with you.

 

Hagoonee

 

 

 

First Transfer!!

Okay so first I got a package with socks protein powder and mints thanks that stuff looks good. also I got Kelsey's package.  It was a sweet package and I enjoyed the candy already but the jerky and granola bars are going with me.

Dang Its transfers and I have got the news I've been dreading. I have to leave Dilkon. It is and will be tough but I knew it had to happen eventually.. I have been in Dilkon for 7 months and it was awesome.   I love the people there so much.  Sunday was really hard. 

 I am going to Page AZ and will be serving in the 5th ward. It will be weird being around so many white people (no offence ). I am looking forward to it though.  It sounds like almost everyone from Dilkon has immediate family that lives there so hope fully I can find them. 

This week was a pretty good last week we saw most everyone at some point.  I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to get to know all of them and hopefully to have taught them something at some point that they will remember. Because I will definitely remember what they have taught me. I had a lot of fun in Dilkon too.   (probably to much, ha ha)  Anyway, this week was super windy so I got a kite.... it broke in like 2 days but it sure was fun and I learned something from it.

                  The kite only worked with a constant wind blowing against it. and when the wind really picked up like 20- 40 mph the kite would nose dive. Then when it was at the right angle to catch the all the wind it would take off right as it hit the ground and go back up as fast if not faster then when it dove. The kite only broke when I misused it and misguided it .  The string broke and it was gone and I couldn't catch it.  I believe that this applies to life.  We cant move forward or go up (progress) with out resistance or opposition.  Also, when life blows to hard we sometimes nose dive because we weren't in the right position to take the force but once/if we adjust we often shoot back up even higher. Finally,  the flyer or guide is God and unlike me when I flew the kite He wont misuse or misguide you or tie a lizard to you and see if you can still fly. He will guide you so that the wind or your life experienced will make you more like Him. 

My ponderize is Mosiah 4:21 this scripture talks of how much we rely on God and how He gives us so much so we should also give to one another.

love yall

hagoonee!

PS:

my new address is

PO box 86

Page AZ 86040

General conference weekend update

So this last week was crazy and this next week will be too!  We just had zone conference which  was amazing and so was General Conference.  I have so many notes I cant believe it. I Loved all of the talks I cant choose just one. There were a few that where especially helpful for missionary's and they helped and inspired me. This last weeks weather was cold but today is 84 degrees and its awesome. I may have gotten sunburned. We went on a hike after I emailed last week it was sooo awesome we found an old, old wall that was built by the natives out of the rocks around the butte.  It was also like 50 mile per hour winds -that was crazy!  I thought we were going to blow of the butte. Today we went to our branch first councilors house in joseph city and ate lunch, shot some pool, and oh yeah got to cut down some trees. He is a 7th generation woodsmen . He is awesome. The drive to their house is beautiful. This week we found some very promising people and I cant wait to get them progressing towards baptism.

My ponderize scripture is mosiah 5:2 which was talked about a little in conference (that's kinda why I chose it ) it says ]
2:And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually.

I really like the part that says ..."which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually."

I know if we let it the gospel can do that for all of us. I know because I have seen that happen for lots of people, myself included , slowly but surely.

I love you all and wish I had more time to email ya'll but I don't so
Hagoonee

Picture with a text from a stranger: 

Your son is doing great. He helps us out each week with the addiction recovery program. He is doing great.